One more thing to realize: Ted Kennedy is not the force to deal with that he was almost 20 years ago when Robert Bork was nominated. The guy's brain is so pickled from alcohol he can hardly make a complete sentence. He can't even pronouce "proliferation" and a score of other words.
The political climate and picture has changed in the past 20 years. No, the libs and the Dim-o-rats will never do again what they did to Bork.
When Kennedy gives a hysterical speech opposing President Bush's nominee, as he inevitably will, Karl Rove should call a press conference and say the following:
"It isn't surpising that Senator Kennedy opposes our nominee to replace Justice O'Connor. Ted Kennedy's America is a land in which infants can have their brains sucked out, child molesters can prowl the halls of our public schools, terror suspects receive luxury hotel accomodations, and anti-Christian bigots urinate on Christian symbols. Above all, Ted Kennedy's America is a land in which a young woman can be left to die a slow death at the bottom of a pond while the philandering drunkard who left her there flits about like an egotistical coward as he searches for his attorney. Frankly, I wouldn't trust a judge who had Senator Kennedy's support."